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arms made in the uk. welcome back to bbc news with the latest on the case in the united states in a moment. we will speak to someone from washington. but now, lets get the sport. good afternoon. liverpool managerjurgen klopp has compared talk of big—money transfers with a five—year—old asking for a ferrari for christmas. the reds have ruled themselves out of signing 19—year—old england midfielderjude bellingham from borussia dortmund due to the costs involved in excess of £1...

The war. the russian inability is one thing that makes me more reassured. the second is on the planning side. the ukrainians, united states and british and others are working together on these operational plans and adapting them every day. it is not something that is static, done once and then three months later you pull the trigger. it is everybody looking very tactically and situationally about what the best approach to prosecuting an offensive will be and that goes right up to the day to when...

Soderberg, goran chang and barry mccaffery. ambassador, is unpredictable a foreign policy? >> no in particular the syria strike has broad support. no one knows whether there is a plan to back it is up of its fine to be unpredictable and not show your cards but you have to have a plan. i think thats the question with this president, what goes with these actions, military actions alone dont wo. you have to marry force and diplomacy, thats the prescription for success. he has time to do it. on nort...

On north korea he asked for options the full range of options i think he needs to have a deliberate discussion of those and a plan. he can keep his cards to his vest, but whats causing some concern among foreign policy experts is is not a lot of assurances there is real strategy thats going with some of these military action. he has time to get them but we want to see a little bit more on the planning side to accompany some of these actions. >> david, americans heard him say who knew health care...

I suspect would you find theres chaos on the planning side right now. and the mill -- in the military operations. >> sean: i know you are not going to give me an answer if you are running. but this website. you said you are going to make a decision probably within weeks. do these events in libya, the events in japan. the president brackets, rio, golfing, distraction, at a time of economic crisis. does this inspire you more to run? does this increase your resolve or have no affect at all? >> i th...

I suspect would you find theres chaos on the planning side right now. and the mill -- in the military operations. >> sean: i know you are not going to give me an answer if you are running. but this website. you said you are going to make a decision probably within weeks. do these events in libya, the events in japan. the president brackets, rio, golfing, distraction, at a time of economic crisis. does this inspire you more to run? does this increase your resolve or have no affect at all? >> i th...

Abound with all of this. is that lodgal to you, that that could have happened and did happen? >> oh, absolutely. and in fact, having been involved in operations like this from the planning side and from the -- what i would call over the shoulder observation side, both in the bal kins and in iraq, i can tell you that those kinds of blackouts happen not as a matter of routine but they occur and they are monitored by a series of code words. so what you really hear is just a code word that means you...